New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-07
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THE PEACE OF EUROPE.
,,,,ops OF ALLIANCES AND fhErANA'
1o"' TIONs FOR WAX.
n,xrr RECONSTRUCTION - MEMORIAL
'"'. .,xsr OFFENSIVE JOURNALISM - SLOW
,.c,,su STEAMSHIPS - Mr.. GLAD
STONES RAPID wRITING-MR-
RusKINs AUToBIoG-
RAPHY.
INV c.pIE TO THE TRIBUNE.1
r,,.;cht 1887; North American Caoie Nees ".
,Doy Ian. s-Ihe T,mess correspondents az
n; Rsrl;n and Vienna are PLAYING very pretty
.anns of contradictions. with which the Edi'o' ~
% n;sa ipterferes. Mr BOwitzs announco"'"'
of a new Sritten Russo-German ainanoe' n.,s..
.,orollv credited is described to-day oy MS perin
Nu..,,o "a an utterly baseless rumor. lhis he
80. nositiveIv. on the highest authority
v;.,na teeeram refers to the same STORY NC "0'o
...o,,iop Mfr. Bl0witz. hardened Dy long oA-
rcrience of denials reaffirms MS hrs' s'A'o"oD''
Int onietly sof,ens it down from forna' treaty "
an understanding between Russia anu "eI"a"''
hear from Berlin that the reai rea'ou w Saao 49,
,.w army bill is pressed is that the war oince
.n5denlv woke up to the fact that France hau
s.o,.r a march on Germany; and while not s'ro"g
ono,ch VET for offensive purposes the frehch army
A.
,ra. behsyed TO be capable. with the help Oh 'ho
,o,,vo,k If frontier fortresses, OF repeiilng any
German attack.
Since Mr. Goscheu's entrance into tne in'S''S'
ord Salisbury seems think he can take oiine ="
,o,h about him. and reconsiruction proceeds
.,ou,,r Lord Northbrook's refusal to take the war
Om.e vice Mr. W. II. Smith, is said to be maj, but
mn rs,sop in given and no other Wing peer IS named
n. Ikely TO accept that post. LORD SALISBURY o'"-
entities IN fitting the right men into the rig' paoo'
indeed appear for a moment TO oe greater 'nan
r T ord Iddssle, CHS friends say he retires not
hecause he has been asked to do so but from
phvsica ina bility to continue the exbaustna ,aoors
of the Foreign Office Viscount Cross hoiis on'
encouraged by Lord SAL sburys failure to capture
suitable man for the India Office and the public,
which wondered why Viscount Cross was lncinded
in the Ministry now wonders why he is to be ex-
.Ird.d If excluded he finally should be he has
added nothing to his reputation, nut neither mas
no dminished it; which wonld perhaps be difficult
Mr. Coscheu. having taken the plunge and surveyed
the stn.tiop from the inside, is we'll pleased With
himself. his new colleagues aud The general pros
poets of the Ministry. Tory grumoles against
letting in outsiders continue, but Lord Salisbury
goes his own way.
Nr. Glad.tones letter to Sir w. V. Harcourt gives
formal sanction to a conference with Mr.. Chamber
lain Thst a serious but hopeful view OF these
negotiations is entertained by both sides is suft-
GENTLY proved by the composition Of the conference
Lord Herschell, Mr.. John Morley and Sir William
Vernon Harcourt on one side and Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain and Sir George Otto Treveyan on the
other are not going to meet rounl table in oider
to discuss the weather.
The strong me mortal which has been addressed to
the English press against indecent Divorce Court
;xac hx,f fha laaHin
bare clyility Some suppress it altogether. hardly
one discusses seriously the serious point raised. and
most saw nothing The Duke of Westminster, the
Earl of elDorne and Archdeacon Farrar lead of IN
this movement, which finds supporters in the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, Mr. Gladstone, Professor
Huxley Professor Tyndall, Cardinal Manning, and
MANY en- inent men of all classes The number OF
pbysncIans and surgeons who sign is remarkable
Tie memorial does not ask for suppression but for
purifc ition of the reports Of divorce cases
suppose the truth is that the papers say so little In
defiance of their conduct because they have SO little
to say.
The publication here of Superintendent belPs
mileage record of the leading Atlantic lines elcits
from rke Times vail of anguish mat Jourhai
sorrowfuIly points out that among eleven ships
averaging sixteen knots only three are English,
while of nine ships between fifteen and sixteen
knots only four arc English Decidedly. says The
Times the houors of this comparison rest with the
North German line: and this cannot but ru1e
English pride, so a cry is raised for some new
measure for the encOurSgement OF :he Engiisn
companies. Meantime more is heard of the Jlngo
ela,uor for sending mails by slow English rather
than by fast German ships.
p Another instalment Of Sir. Ruskin's auto
biography appears to-day This includes some
account of the first impression made by Ruskln's
sModern Painters" on painters themselves. ana
the public generally, with full recognition OF The
service done him By Sydney SIN early and
cordial eulogy of the book. Admitting that he
failed TO praise the artists of those days enough
Mr.. RusKin Enthusiastically atones for the
omission ny sweeping denuncation OF the artists OF
the present time. Their only object he declares, Is
each to overpower the public with his greatness or
catch it with his smaness Everybody is selhshly
ambitious. Sensation, displays and money are the
ends they have in view
Mr. Gladstone is reported to have received 1850
for his I" LOcksley Hall" article in The Nineteenth
Century 1t was written in three days. they say
and Tory critics think it bears mary marks of this
railroad speed.
Mr. Rider Haggard reappears the scene with
What he calls history of adventure entitled
sShe." This, ike his smuch-overpraised King Solo
mons Mines" is a book remarkable for inventive
energy, and passages may even be called imag-
NATIVE. but of literary art Mr. Haggard has little
He is however. among the popular novelists of the
day aud is much sought after by publishers. lie
has already begun u new story in Longmans
4dga-ne G. W. S.
ANOTHER DIVORCE SCANDAL.
TIE MAECInoNEss OF QUrENsBEhRY BRINGS AN
ACTION AGAINST HER HUSBAND.
EDINBURGn Jan. 6-The Marchioness Of Queensberry